cycad
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪkæd/
- Specialized
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cícada
- The cycad, with its thick trunk and large, fernlike leaves, is often found in tropical gardens.
- cycad plant
- ginkgos and cycads
- ferns and cycads
Examples
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Those trees to your left and right are called cycads, the prehistoric predecessors of palm trees.
Fiction book (1990) -
Available plants included cycads, cycadeoids, conifers, ginkgoes, horsetails, and especially ferns.
Academic text (1991) -
The middle-sized cycad was also brought in.
Blog text (16) -
Cycads were a favorite food of the dinosaurs.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Vegetarian dinosaurs dined on ferns, floating water plants, and the palmlike cycad.
Fiction book (1990) -
The Red List does, however, include comprehensive evaluations of all conifer (Farjon and Page 1999) and cycad (Donaldson 2003) species.
Academic text (2004) -
Root shrugged, watching her as she circled the pond to a clump of feather-fronded cycads.
Fiction book (1992) -
In many botanical gardens, you can see the impressive cycad species that have existed for millions of years.
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The park is home to several rare cycads that attract plant enthusiasts from around the world.
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Etymology
The word cycad comes from the old Greek plant name kykas, which meant 'palm'. Cycads look like palms or large ferns with a single trunk and a ring of big leaves on top, so that old name came to be used for these plants.